Our Family’s Favourite Spring Rolls
byI began making these twenty years ago when I won a Ayam cook book in a competition and they have quite literally ruined any…
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Fish Souffles
byA few years ago I accidentally ended up in a French restaurant. I thought it was a pub. This recipe is a direct result of that fateful day.
Mr Big’s Steamed Dumplings
byWe see steamed dumplings as a meal, albeit one we eat with our fingers: dipping a dumpling in the plum sauce, popping it in your mouth and then reaching for the next one. Unless someone is cooking Peking Duck somewhere in the kitchen, we don’t want anything else.
Grandma’s Cauliflower Soup
byThis isn’t a soup I grew up with but rather one Grandma has added to her arsenal of killer recipes in recent years. My…
Apple Pie – Homemade Pastry Option
byMy simple apple pie filling, with a homemade pastry. Takes a little longer but wife loves it more than pie made with frozen pastry sheets and she ‘pays’ well.
Apple Pie – Easy Pastry Option
byI usually don’t put up two recipe posts in one week, but this seems to be the month for pies. A friend gave me this recipe a few weeks ago. When I say gave I mean he posted a pic on Facebook of one of the pies he and his wife had just made and it looked so good I insisted he give me the recipe. Same thing, I say.
Grandma’s Rhubarb Pie
byOf all the pies I’ve made with Grandma lately, this is the one I want to do again really soon. Tracey, on the other hand, has a hankering for Grandma’s Spinach Pie, so you can guess which of these two pies I’ve made twice more in the three weeks since Grandma has been away.
Grandma’s Spinach Pie
byServe this moist spinach pie with a salad or as a side. either way, it’s going to be the talking point of any meal you include it in.
Grandma’s Chicken and Corn Soup
bySTEP 2. Chop chicken. Set aside. This is difficult because, quite frankly, soup isn’t necessary – at this point in the proceedings the chicken tastes good enough as is. But if insist on soup, strain stock.
Grandma’s Rum & Raisin Shortbread
byI like Rum and Raisin anything so I was especially chuffed when Grandma announced we’d be cooking these little numbers up this morning.
Miss6 and Miss3 helped with the prep while I took photos as sipped on a coffee.
Great way to spend an hour.
Making Playdough Is Child’s Play
byTracey made some playdough today with Miss3.
Playdough is expensive to buy but cheap to make and easy, easy, easy.
You do this once you won’t hesitate to do it again.
Grandma’s Duck Recipes
byA wonderful friend popped over last week to give me a duck.
“I friend gave it to me,” she said, “and I really don’t know what to do with it. So I thought of you.”
Best. Friend. Ever.
I knew exactly what to do with a duck. Call Grandma.
Grandma’s Prawn Toast
byThe problem with prawns is they can cost you a fortune to feel the whole family. Well, not anymore. It just takes a little thinking outside the square, which suits me just fine because I prefer them cut into rectangles anyway.
Grandma’s Parmesan-Herb Lace Biscuits
byWant to make biscuits but don’t have any flour in the house? Not problem! Grandma has the solution.
Grandma’s Classic Sausage Rolls
byIf you like frozen sausage rolls, don’t make these. You will hate yourself. You won’t settle for those tasteless lumps of cardboard anymore. But thankfully, these are easy to make.